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Congregants near the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh were ambushed on Saturday morning by a man who opened fire with multiple weapons. According to on-scene reports, the shooter shouted “All Jews must die” as he...
by Mark Sumner
 534 comments
on Sat Oct 27, 2018 at 09:01 AM PDT
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Not long after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting massacre on February 14th in Parkland, Florida, many students of the school organized to cut gun violence in the USA. And their aim was true and clear. One of the students that expressed...
by hungeski
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on Sun Jul 22, 2018 at 01:31 PM PDT
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Sound the alarm, people, there is a mile-wide loophole that should have every citizen who loves their children alarmed. It’s difficult to fathom, but the AR-15, the preferred weapon of mass murderers, has become even more deadly—and the deplorables...
by Pakalolo
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on Wed May 30, 2018 at 05:40 AM PDT
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decommission |ˌdēkəˈmiSHən|
verb [with object]
withdraw (something, especially weapons or military equipment) from service: a decision to decommission the ice patrol ship HMS Endurance.
• make (a nuclear reactor or weapon) inoperative, and dismantle...
by robctwo
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on Thu Mar 01, 2018 at 07:21 AM PST
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There is a lot of discussion about the AR-15 and assault rifles. Some of it is right, some wrong, and some depends upon where you go for the definition of "assault rifle." But none of it really explains the history of the weapon and how we got to this...
by dhonig
50 comments
on Sun Feb 18, 2018 at 12:51 PM PST
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An Open Letter to Donald Trump
(and every Republican federal, state, and local lawmaker; every white supremacist; every member of the alt-right; and every RWNJ)
Your thoughts and prayers are not working. Perhaps you are lousy at praying....
by Skeeter1950
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on Tue Nov 07, 2017 at 06:24 PM PST
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The recent mass shooting in Orlando, Florida like other mass shootings before it offers society lessons about these horrific events. Unfortunately, society ignores those lessons and instead focuses on issues that distort the real reasons why mass...
by melshim
11 comments
on Wed Jun 22, 2016 at 03:17 AM PDT
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This is the comic crossroad of conservative wet dreams and conservative nightmares. 1 comments
on Tue Jun 21, 2016 at 09:33 AM PDT
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Dear good guy with a gun.
Where are you? You keep telling us that you will protect us from the bad guys but I have yet to see much action. You have told us you will be there when danger strikes. You have said rest assured that if a lunatic walks...
by Cab
19 comments
on Fri Jun 17, 2016 at 07:49 AM PDT
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The recent mass shooting that killed 50 people and injured 53 in an Orlando nightclub is the worst in US history – a history that we are well familiar with as these tragedies are occurring to frequently. What the public is also familiar with is that...
by melshim
34 comments
on Mon Jun 13, 2016 at 03:41 AM PDT
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It is 7 a.m. on Sunday morning, June 12. The excited voices of TV news reporters repeat what they do not know over a seemingly endless loop of images of gunshot victims being helped out of a nightclub in Orlando. Were people killed? More than 40...
by rogerray
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on Sun Jun 12, 2016 at 07:22 AM PDT
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All bad guys are not black men in the ghetto, some are white and wearing a suit.
And Domestic! What ability do you think the American people will have to keep “a few good men” from getting ou
by Jason Lyons
82 comments
on Tue Dec 08, 2015 at 07:46 PM PST
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Approximately ten rounds were fired at three fisherman on lake Tobesofkee in Macon, Georgia and to date no one has been charged or arrested. The shots, according to reports, were fired from 124 ...
by LCSulla
39 comments
on Tue Apr 07, 2015 at 09:52 PM PDT
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NOTICE OF PUBLISHING ERROR
On Feb. 13, 2015, ATF released for public comment a proposed framework to guide its determination on what ammunition is "primarily intended for sporting purposes" for ...
by 43north
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on Sat Mar 07, 2015 at 03:27 PM PST
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Watching the Super Bowl tonight in central FL? Stay a few extra minutes for the breaking news on the same channel.
The hell raising is bearing fruit. I just spent over an hour with the local NBC ...
by pajoly
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on Sun Feb 01, 2015 at 03:05 PM PST
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This sat 8' from my neighbor's side fence where my kids play. There is no backstop. Behind it another fence and a home immediately behind that. The back wall of the home is direct path should any ...
by pajoly
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on Fri Jan 30, 2015 at 06:08 PM PST
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Hello,
I wrote the following rant a couple days after the 12/14 shooting. I needed to vent, to give a voice to my thoughts. Rereading it a year later i find nothing has changed and it has helped ...
by rgerb
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on Mon Dec 16, 2013 at 04:19 PM PST
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Erick ...
by jpmassar
260 comments
on Mon Oct 28, 2013 at 04:09 PM PDT
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This is not snark, although I bet it would score well for packing hot-button keywords into a title.
News reports this morning are saying that my infuriating Representative, Renee Ellmers of NC-2, ...
by political mutt
89 comments
on Wed Oct 23, 2013 at 06:41 AM PDT
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Late Thursday night, a pickup basketball game at Cornell Square Park on Chicago's South Side ended abruptly when someone opened fire on the crowd, wounding 13 people. Yesterday, police confirmed ...
by Christian Dem in NC
19 comments
on Sat Sep 21, 2013 at 07:42 AM PDT
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